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- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 2 days ago:
freedomadvocate
So that was a lie
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Log2(8.2billion) is about 33. That means if each word only had 1 synonym, you only need to change 33 words to uniquely identify who was responsible.
21 words need to change if each has 3 options. 17 words for 4 options.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 3 weeks ago:
Just interlace after the ai generation to prevent detection lol
- Comment on production line 5 weeks ago:
I thought it was pies, not bread
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 weeks ago:
All they have to do is send a few crews with log dipoles or yagis. Take a few operators down and charge them with terrorism or something and a critical mass will stop using it.
We have the tech for drones sweeping everything everywhere with sensors. Cameras, radios, microphones, IR…
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 5 weeks ago:
“Stop using ML for everything”
I see no other way to drink from the firehose. We’re talking nationstate level resources.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 5 weeks ago:
Why do you think the telecoms got away with stalling upgrades and fiber roll outs for so long?
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t jpg break this? And can’t it be detected? I imagine AI could be used to some extent.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 month ago:
Dead drop USBs for file sharing?
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 month ago:
Good news, we closed that pesky loophole by banning encryption without backdoors.
If they can’t decode it, you better be ready to explain exactly what those bytes were!
- Comment on Mississippi Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
We’ve done it before.
Back when reddit was young, before social media apps captured the content. It just doesn’t matter now. Critical mass of the internet is corporations.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 month ago:
CE is neat because most companies will treat you as if you had a CS or EE degree. Can always pivot to HW or FPGA
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 month ago:
If there’s no hope for getting a job, it doesn’t mean they’re not passionate.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 month ago:
How
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 1 month ago:
Always has been
Residents in big cities have been experiencing it for decades at this point.
ConEd saying “We’re preparing for the heat wave in your area this week. Please, limit your energy usage to prevent power outages.”
Yeah, and times square is still lit up full brightness. The the skyscraper offices aren’t doing their part. Most of them, you can feel the cold on the street from their lobbies.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 month ago:
They listed the majority first. That’s all they did here.
- Comment on Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. 2 months ago:
Not true- ATMs definitely track SN, that’s how they catch theives. I’m almost certain banks would record SN too, at least nowadays. It would be stupid simple.
- Comment on Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data? 2 months ago:
Okay, so conversion or unjust enrichment instead of literal theft.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 2 months ago:
Time to cancel some cards
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 months ago:
There’s always gps spoofing via debug mode too
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 2 months ago:
Pin pitch means how tiny the physical pins in the connector can be spaced apart.
IR drop losses happen because a wire has resistance, it isn’t a perfect conductor. 28AWG wire has about 0.22ohm/m. Given a 2 meter cable, you might expect to see 0.44ohm one-way. Current is also travelling back, so the circuit “sees” another 0.44ohm. That’s a total of 0.88ohm
A wire will cause voltage drop following ohm’s law. V=I/*R. So for 1A of current, you will see 0.88V lost.
Say you’re trying to charge at 15W (5V 3A), your phone is only going to ‘see’ 2.36 volts, and 7.9W are wasted in the cable.
For a 100W device (20V, 5A), 4.4V are lost, also meaning 22W are wasted.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 2 months ago:
The concentration of them is rising exponentially, that’s the part that terrifies me.
It’s possible we just haven’t crossed a threshold yet.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 2 months ago:
And formula fed
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 3 months ago:
So, middle school
- Comment on AI Training Slop 4 months ago:
How much electricity was wasted for you to post, and us to receive, your human slop
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 4 months ago:
Microwave point-to-point radios are fastest because they travel through air, but more importantly, are typically the shortest path possible by line-of-sight.
Being 66.7% of speed of light doesn’t matter terribly when you consider that the cable path is shorter by more than 66.7% of path taken by satelite link.
There’s also the idea of
- Comment on Can I replace honey with maple syrup? 4 months ago:
Wait really? Butterworth is more like honey than maple syrup?
I guess butterworth is just flavored HFCS.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 4 months ago:
Even a 20 year old computer. Honestly.
The start menu should barely make a dent.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 months ago:
You didn’t say how much: you’re gifted at one thing, but you’re now nonverbal and every sensation is overwhelming.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 4 months ago:
Rtlsdr too